Re: Bug in ls Command

[Jim Meyering]

Sunil Khandelwal <address@hidden> wrote:
| the -d switch with ls does not work properly.
|
| It is suppose to give listing of directories but it shows only one "."
| for current directory entry.
|
| I am using it on Red hat Linux 7.0

What command are you using?  `ls -d'?
What do you expect it to print?
Every version of ls I've ever used has printed simply `.'
for that command, so it would not be a good idea to change that now.